(a) Failure to Comply with Chapter Unlawful. No person shall discharge sewage, industrial wastes or other wastes into any public sewer or drain within the jurisdiction of the City without having first complied with the terms of this chapter.
(b) Permit Required. No person shall make any connection with any public sewer or drain within the jurisdiction of the City, or discharge sewage, industrial wastes or other wastes into any public sewer or drain within the jurisdiction of the City without first obtaining a permit therefor as provided in this chapter.
(c) Application; Issuance. Any person desiring a permit to make a connection with, open or tap any public sewer or drain shall first make application to the Director of Utilities in the case of sanitary sewers, or the City Engineer in the case of storm sewers, who shall consult his records with regard to the sewer or drain involved. If such connection, opening or tap can be made, the Director of Utilities or City Engineer shall give such applicant the approximate location at which the connection, opening or tap is to be made, or, if necessary, shall cause a stake to be set on the premises at which the connection, opening or tap is to be made. Upon receipt of all fees, and evaluation and acceptance of the data furnished pursuant to division (d) of this section, when applicable, the Director of Utilities or City Engineer shall issue to the applicant a permit granting permission to connect with, open or tap such sewer or drain and shall state in such permit the street address and the lot number of the property for which the permit is issued. No permit to connect into the sanitary system shall be issued until the Director has determined that capacity is available for wastewater to be discharged in all downstream sewers, lift stations, force mains and the wastewater treatment plant, including capacity for compatible wastes.
(d) Fee. The fee for any such permit issued by the Director of Utilities or the City Engineer shall be fifteen dollars ($15.00) for inspection of a repair or replacement lateral, twenty-five dollars ($25.00) for single-family residential and forty dollars ($40.00) for commercial, industrial, multi-family and other uses.
(e) Form of Permit; Disposition of Funds Collected. The Director of Utilities shall establish the form for permits to tap sewers, and all forms shall be consecutively numbered. The Director shall transfer to the City Treasurer, in the manner prescribed by law, all funds received for sewer permits, which funds shall be credited to the Sewer Fund of the City.
(Ord. 175-91. Passed 7-8-91; Ord. 246-21. Passed 10-25-21.)